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600 “the core problem”: Ginger Alden Leyser, “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.

600 “didn’t know Elvis”: Joe Esposito to Peter O. Whitmer, raw interview transcript, 1994.

600 “Precious, I’m going to go in the bathroom”: Billy Smith quoting Elvis Presley to author, 1994. A similar exchange appears in Life magazine, June 1990.

601 “No, if they ain’t heard from him”: Billy Smith to author, 1994.

601 “That’s when I saw him in there”: Ginger Alden, “World’s at Standstill for Elvis’s Fiancee,” by Lawrence Buser, The Commercial Appeal, August 19, 1977.

602 “Who’s on duty?” Ginger Alden, as quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.

602 “Don’t go, son!”: Billy Smith quoting Vernon Presley to author, 1994.

602 “Get her out of here, quick!” Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.

602 “What happened to him?”: Ulysses Jones, as quoted by Marty Lacker to author, 1994.

602 “He’s gone”: Dr. George C. Nichopoulos, quoted in Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.

603 “was at a standstill”: Jo Smith, quoted in “World’s at Standstill for Elvis’s Fiancee,” by Lawrence Buser, Commercial Appeal, August 19, 1977.

603 “an overwhelming sense”: Ginger Alden Leyser, “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.

603 “My son is dead”: Vernon Presley, quoted in “Elvis Presley’s Death: Anniversary Spotlights Similarities with Michael Jackson,” by Russell Goldman, on the ABC News Web site, August 16, 2009.

603 “She stood there”: Larry Geller to author, 2009.

603 “It’s Lisa”: Lisa Marie Presley, as quoted by Linda Thompson, Life magazine, February 10, 1995.

603 “I have something terrible to tell you”: Joe Esposito to Colonel Tom Parker. Esposito, Joe, with Oumano, Elena. Good Rockin’ Tonight.

603 “I left the house”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Elvis By the Presleys: Ritz, David, editor.

603 “A call came in from Memphis”: Priscilla Presley, quoting her sister in “Priscilla Presley: Surviving Elvis,” by Sheila Weller, McCall’s magazine, May 1979.

604 “The sun went out”: Priscilla Presley, quoted in Ladies’ Home Journal, July 2003.

604 “He just said”: Shirley Dieu to author, 2009.

604 “I turned the world off”: Sheila Ryan Caan to author, 2009.

604 “The first thing I heard”: Joyce Bova, e-mail to author, 2009.

604 “I was absolutely devastated”: Ann Ellington Wagner, in the documentary, The Definitive Elvis: The Many Loves of Elvis.

604 “everybody went numb”: Raquel Welch to author, 2007.

605 “When I came out of my bedroom”: June Juanico, 2007.

EPILOGUE

608 “Simply put”: Dr. M. Katherine Shear, quoted in “After a Death, the Pain That Doesn’t Go Away,” by Fran Schumer, The New York Times, September 29, 2009.

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